Hot Freight Markets This Week: Where Trucks Are Making Money (Sep 14)
Spokane hits #2 in reefer, Kentucky locks up flatbed’s top three, and the Midwest keeps running dry van. Here’s where to point your trucks September 14.
Spokane hits #2 in reefer, Kentucky locks up flatbed’s top three, and the Midwest keeps running dry van. Here’s where to point your trucks September 14.
Evansville tops dry van, Sioux Falls leads reefer, and Bowling Green holds strong in flatbed, but the real story this week is Jefferson City’s jaw-dropping 23% single-day flatbed spike. Here’s your full August 31 freight market breakdown.
Amarillo at #1 in dry van? Reno jumping 30 spots in reefer? Denver up 39% in flatbed? This week had some moves nobody saw coming. The Plains are still anchoring reefer at the top, Memphis is back where it belongs in flatbed, and dry van keeps drifting lower even as some surprising markets push their way up the board. Here’s the full breakdown.
Sioux Falls holds reefer’s top spot for a third straight week. Bowling Green dethrones Memphis in flatbed. And reefer markets nobody was watching just exploded. Here’s where to run August 17.
Omaha, Sioux Falls, and Rapid City hold the top three reefer spots for the second straight week. Dry van finds a floor. Flatbed is all green. Here’s where to run.
California ran reefer for weeks. This week, the Plains walked in and took the keys.
Sioux Falls, SD is sitting at #1 in reefer. Omaha is #2. Rapid City popped 11% in a single day to grab #3. That’s not a blip — that’s a real shift, and if you’ve got refrigerated capacity, it changes where you need to be pointed right now.
San Diego leads dry van, reefer gets wild with 18% single-day swings, and flatbed has its best week of the summer. Here’s where to run your trucks July 27.
California dominates dry van and reefer this week while flatbed resets. Here’s where the Spotter Index says trucks are making money right now.
Flatbed demand continues to be concentrated in the South and Midwest, particularly in Texas, Louisiana, and into Tennessee and Kentucky, where construction and industrial freight are keeping trucks moving.
Dry van activity is strongest out of Southern California and parts of the Midwest, with Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan keeping volumes steady. By contrast, the Northeast and Mountain regions remain softer, where outbound demand is much lighter.
Flatbed demand continues to be concentrated in the South and Midwest, particularly in Texas, Louisiana, and into Tennessee and Kentucky, where construction and industrial freight are keeping trucks moving.
Flatbed markets remain strongest across the West and parts of the Midwest, with high demand concentrated in California, Oregon, Idaho, and Colorado, while Southern states like Texas and Louisiana show mixed but steady activity.